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Originally Posted by McGowdog
You have a lot of time on your hands.
Is bashing Trump your job? Hope it pays well. Can't imagine the benefits are that good. But what do I know? I'm just an idiotic Trump supporter.
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Oh, the Communist party pays me very well, thanks for asking. I don't need benefits since the Communists - just like you - think I need "time on my hands" to reply to this drivel. Truth be told, it takes me maybe 20 - 30 minutes per day, and the Commies are paying me for 10 HOURS!
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Originally Posted by McGowdog
Oh, and btw, I'll ask my previous question here again since you're the Maria-Puerto Rico expert... How are PRs other 77 mayors doing
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I haven't been able to find quotes from many other Puerto Rican mayors. Here's 3 mayors who have managed to report in according to the Washington Post:
The town mayor of Vega Bajan (northern Puerto Rico), said the floodwaters reached more than 10 feet. Stranded residents screamed “save me, save me,” using the lights in their cellphones to help rescue teams find them in the darkness, the town’s mayor said.
In Loiza, a north coastal town that already had been ravaged by Hurricane Irma, 90 percent of homes — 3,000 — were destroyed by Hurricane Maria just days later. In communities across the island, bridges collapsed and highways were severely damaged, isolating many residents. In Rio Grande, officials had yet to access a number of families stuck in their homes, three days after the powerful storm made landfall.
When speaking about his town’s destruction, Ramon Hernandez Torres, mayor of the southern city of Juana Diaz, took a long pause, his voice catching and his eyes filling with tears.
“It’s a total disaster,” he said.
The Washington Post article goes on to explain that:
Hurricane Maria pounded the entire island of Puerto Rico on Wednesday, but the scope of the damage had been speculative and unclear since, in large part because towns across the U.S. territory have been completely off the grid. Though images from the air showed incredible destruction, mayors were unable to reach central government for leadership and help because communication was impossible. No telephones, cellphones, or Internet. No power. No passage through roads that had been washed away or blocked with trees and power lines.
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and how many days were separating Hurricane Irma's devastation on PR and Hurricane Maria's?
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Hurricane Irma made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 7.
Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico less than 2 weeks later on September 20th. Rescuers were in already in position in Houston the DAY BEFORE HARVEY STRUCK on August 25th. Given that Puerto Rico had been suffering for almost two weeks before the well predicted IN ADVANCE Maria struck, where was our government all that time???
Meteorologists gave plenty of warning about the coming devastation of Maria days before it made landfall. Hours before Maria struck, Accuweather had this to say:
Maria will threaten lives and cause devastation in areas hit and missed by Irma's worst less than two weeks earlier. According to Dr. Joel N. Myers, founder, president and chairman of AccuWeather, "There is no comparison between what Puerto Rico got before with Irma and what it will get this time with Maria.
This is a disaster in the making. All parties in Puerto Rico and the nearby islands need to know how serious this threat is. The damage done by wind gusts from the last storm (Irma) of 50 to 60 mph will pale in comparison to winds that may reach 140 from Hurricane Maria."
"It is possible that parts of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands may become uninhabitable for weeks or longer due to the destruction that Maria will cause," Myers said.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weath...lands/70002745
FEMA, the US Navy and the rest of the US military new in ADVANCE what was headed Puerto Rico's way just like they knew what was headed for Houston earlier, so that they had relief agencies in position in Houston a full day before. Puerto Rico? Meh, it's just an island somewhere in the Pacific.
And as always, I'll thank you to not put words in my posts. I did not write that McDog is an "idiotic Trump supporter" when it comes to other subjects. In fact, I have admired some of your posts on other forums. So, there!
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